Natural Science Forum / Physics / General Physics / July 2008

Well, my 10 million pound press will always break
with a sample size always large enough to work.

So the focused shochwave is to trigger the
hydrogen directly.

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*XXXXXXXXH
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The asterisks above denote the side view of the
cone.

A cylinder of explosives denoted by the XXXXXXXX
about one inch in diameter and ten inchs long.

And the "H" denotes the focus of the parabola.

A durable steel focus plate must be high high
tempered. 100psi steel is large enough to trigger
with the 10 gigapound level at H.

The explosive must be special ultrafast kind.
It must all explode in 1e-6 seconds.

So ultrafast explosive is required.
A conventional expolsive will apply.

And of course fire the explosion on the
left end towards the steel focus plate!!!!!

Hurray.  A ten inch diameter plate. Ten inchs
of cylinderical explosives and the small Hydrogen
sample cooled to liquied helium.

And the shockwave will trigger the small h-bomb
to thence trigger the larger.  An unbalanced
trigger may self destructe without effecting the
secondary core.